Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Who Doesn’t Have a Summoned Creature?
Wu Chang shook his head and said, "On the contrary, you just gave me a reason to kill you."
As the mastermind behind everything, Chi Yuan was obviously the hidden BOSS; whether he was vanquished or not would affect the clearance score.
Everything Chi Yuan did, after all, was out of revenge for his loved ones. If Chi Yuan avenged his great hatred and then laid down his knife, becoming a Buddha on the spot, willing to bear everything, then it would undoubtedly be the perfect ending.
The exploration percentage of the part that belonged to Chi Yuan would not be affected. He wouldn’t act just for the possible loot drop but would choose to complete the dungeon.
But if Chi Yuan remained stubborn and wanted to kill him to keep secrets, then he would be happy to have a showdown with Chi Yuan to see what good loot this hidden BOSS might drop.
Chi Yuan formed a spell with his hands, causing three demons to lock onto Wu Chang, then said loudly:
"In that case, let’s each rely on our own skills."
With one against four, Wu Chang, who lacked attack methods, stood no chance of winning.
To deal with Chi Yuan, he had to create enough space to defeat them one by one.
He took out the Four-sided Age Fire Lamp, and with a spark from the lamp core, the campfire for roasting lamb exploded, transforming into fire snakes rushing towards Chi Yuan and the three demons.
Chi Yuan commanded the Mountain Demon to block the Age Fire. The Age Fire, which restrained demons, surprisingly couldn’t penetrate the yellow light on the surface of the Mountain Demon.
However, Wu Chang hadn’t expected to gain any advantage with this sneak attack.
By the time the flames dissipated, he had already distanced himself thirty to forty meters from Chi Yuan.
"Four against one is nothing extraordinary. Wu will take his leave first!"
"Chase after him!"
Seeing Wu Chang trying to escape, Chi Yuan immediately ordered the demon beasts to pursue.
Wu Chang arrived at the prepared horse hiding spot, mounted the horse, and galloped towards Huai Valley Village while observing behind him. Seeing the three demon beasts separate from Chi Yuan, he turned back and fired a shot.
Chi Yuan, having seen the power of Silver Dawn, leaned back immediately upon seeing Wu Chang raise his hand, and flipped off the black donkey, taking advantage of the situation to tug the reins, making the black donkey stand on its hind legs as a shield before him.
"Bang!"
The bullet shot through the black donkey’s body, spraying blood onto Chi Yuan’s face.
Wu Chang inwardly lamented, then shouted loudly, "Daoist, if you pursue Wu again, you might not have such luck next time."
Seeing the egg-sized through wound on the black donkey, Chi Yuan felt a lingering fear. Although a practitioner, a practitioner’s body was still flesh and blood, and getting shot once could be fatal.
"Wu Young Hero’s hidden weapon is indeed extraordinary, but while it might hurt people, can it harm demons?"
With that, Chi Yuan left the Iron Armor-clad Snake Demon to guard his side and sent the Mountain Demon and Tree Demon to continue pursuing Wu Chang.
This was exactly what Wu Chang wanted, to first force Chi Yuan and the demons apart and then defeat them one by one.
He first circled a few times in the mountains, widening the distance between the Mountain Demon, the Tree Demon, and Chi Yuan, ensuring Chi Yuan couldn’t provide support in the short term. Then he turned back along the mountain path to Huai Valley Village.
As the core of the dungeon, everything started from Huai Valley Village, and everything should end there.
The Huai Valley Village, ravaged by demons, lay in ruins, and everywhere was a mosaic.
A gentleman sees its birth and cannot bear to see its death.
The villagers who were vibrant yesterday now lay twisted on the ground. Even though he knew they were Black Mountain Bandits, Wu Chang couldn’t help but feel some reluctance.
But only to this extent.
Everyone should be responsible for their actions and bear the corresponding consequences.
Massacring the original villagers of Huai Valley Village, they didn’t even spare their corpses, using them as materials for evil techniques inside Hollow Mountain, transforming resentment into spiritual qi to pray for bumper harvests; everyone participated.
When they caught the Village Guard boy in the forest and treated him as livestock, bullying and tormenting him, and using him to ward off disasters for the village, everyone participated.
When Chi Yuan came seeking revenge, wouldn’t it be unfair if anyone was missing?
Wu Chang stood next to the giant bonfire for the sacrificial festival, watching the closely pursuing Mountain Demon and Tree Demon, covering his face with two halves of a mask.
These days, who doesn’t know how to summon a sidekick?
Item Skill - Shadow, activate.
Space distorted in front of Wu Chang, and two silhouettes appeared before him.
One was Liu Shan, the other a Fog Demon.
Liu Shan, relying on a lifetime of body technique and claw technique, was extremely powerful. His might came from a cultivation technique honed over the years, and though age had reduced his physical attributes, his actual level didn’t exceed the Shadow Mask’s limit by much.
The Fog Demon wreaked havoc in Chen Family Village using its unpredictable powers, but in terms of attributes, its true strength was only level 11.
The silhouettes summoned by the Shadow Mask, augmented by the skill, were even a bit stronger than their real forms.
The strengths of Liu Shan and the Fog Demon were not bad, but slightly inferior to the Mountain Demon and Tree Demon.
If strength was insufficient, equipment would make up for it.
Wu Chang threw the iron claw taken from Liu Shan to Liu Shan Shadow. Liu Shan Shadow caught the iron claw and skillfully put it on his hands.
With his customary weapon, Liu Shan’s strength increased several times.
He threw the broken Demon Transformation Short Knife to the Fog Demon. After the Fog Demon fused with the short knife, it became more solid, and its aura strengthened significantly.
Although it still lagged behind the two demons summoned by Chi Yuan, it was not completely helpless.
Without Chi Yuan’s control, the two pursuing demons acted purely on instinct.
The Mountain Demon roared in anger upon seeing Liu Shan reappear and charged at Liu Shan.
But before it could get close, its vision blurred, and the surrounding world turned into a foggy expanse.
The Mountain Demon, with its thick skin and flesh, assumed the tank role, suppressing Liu Shan, who played the assassin role, to a standstill.
Wu Chang currently couldn’t summon a Shadow that could go head-to-head with the Mountain Demon. Defeating the Mountain Demon was difficult, but stalling it was not.
Just as a tank counters an assassin, a control-type mage also counters slow tanks.
The Fog Demon summoned an ice fog to envelop the Mountain Demon. The cold slowed the Mountain Demon’s actions, invoking fear abilities. Although it couldn’t defeat the Magic Artifact-formed Mountain Demon, it could overburden its CPU, slowing its reactions.
In contrast, the Fog Demon, with a body that could turn into mist at any time, had no fear of the Mountain Demon’s fists.
Using the Fog Demon to stall the Mountain Demon, Liu Shan proactively attacked the Tree Demon.
Compared to the Mountain Demon and the Snake Demon, the Tree Demon excelled at group battles.
The hundreds to thousands of branches hanging from its head each resembled a sharp sword. When placed amidst a crowd, a simple body shake created a swordblade storm.
If anyone got scratched by the branches, minor injuries would lead to lacerations, while severe cases could cause limb separation.
The Tree Demon was not afraid of swarm tactics. When facing many enemies, even with numerous sacrifices, it was difficult to approach the Tree Demon’s main body.
But when it faced a nimble single target, its attacks seemed somewhat inadequate.
The sword array formed by shaking its body appeared full of openings in front of Liu Shan, who was proficient in body techniques and known by the nickname "Flying Cloud Eagle."
Amidst the hundreds of branches, Liu Shan moved as if taking a leisurely stroll, easily dodging every attack.
Meanwhile, his offensive never halted. He took advantage of the branches’ sluggish movements during swings, swiftly and accurately striking with his claws, effortlessly twisting and tearing off branches that could withstand slashing and chopping.
Liu Shan effectively transformed into a Tony teacher on the spot, trimming the Tree Demon’s hairstyle. Within two to three minutes, he had twisted off all the tree branches on the Tree Demon’s top, leaving none intact.
Wu Chang, standing by, raised the Silver Dawn and joined the battle.
Without its attack capabilities, the tree trunk became a moving sandbag. Under the pincer attack of the two, it was swiftly defeated.
With a shot from Wu Chang hitting the Tree Demon’s core, the Tree Demon’s body disintegrated, reverting to a wooden magic sword broken into two pieces.
After dealing with the Tree Demon, Wu Chang and Liu Shan turned to besiege the Mountain Demon.
Wu Chang took out the Soul Cleansing Banner, unleashing its suppressive power on demons, further slowing the Mountain Demon’s movements already hindered by the Fog Demon.
Indeed, the Mountain Demon was thick-skinned, but it couldn’t withstand the pummeling from one person and two projections.
Especially as Wu Chang and Liu Shan fully adopted the underhanded tactics of the Grassland Brother Hyena. No move was too low for them.
After the eye stabs and ear jabs, their attacks focused intently on the lower body.
It’s usually monkeys that steal peaches, but this massive ape-like Mountain Demon found itself being targeted by two weapon-wielding individuals intent on stealing its peaches. Who could endure that?
Besieged like this, the Mountain Demon’s protective spiritual energy quickly ran out, and its lower defenses were breached.
Accompanied by Liu Shan driving a claw into a certain large peach and delivering a fatal critical strike, the Mountain Demon howled and transformed into a copper Dharma Bell, dropping to the ground.
The bell’s core fractured into several pieces, signifying that this Shaking Bell would never ring again.
After dealing with the two demons, about three to four minutes later, the slow-moving Snake Demon finally arrived carrying Chi Yuan.
Before Chi Yuan could speak, he saw Wu Chang raising the Four-sided Age Fire Lamp.
During the time Chi Yuan took to arrive, Wu Chang had buried the broken branches and broken sword twisted off by Liu Shan into the bonfire.
Wood generates fire, and with the Tree Demon’s wood power, the New Year bonfire shot skyward, resembling a pillar of fiery heaven.
Using the Four-sided Age Fire Lamp as a guide, it connected with the Exorcism Array, transforming the pillar of fire into a fire dragon, charging straight at Chi Yuan.
Chi Yuan leaped and dashed away, but the iron-armored Snake Demon under him couldn’t escape in time.
Fire overcomes metal.
Under the immense celestial fire, the Snake Demon’s iron armor immediately melted into molten iron. Without its iron armor, the Snake Demon struggled like a salt-covered leech in the age fire.
The Snake Demon didn’t last a few breaths before reverting to an Iron Mirror, melting into iron water in the sea of fire, leaving not even a remnant, thoroughly extinguished.
Wu Chang stood with Liu Shan on his left and the Fog Demon floating on his right, pointing the Silver Dawn at Chi Yuan.
Having endured the villain’s evil outnumbering tactics, it’s now time for the protagonist to commence a righteous siege.